GB's Dickson & Franklin win World Cup golds

Great Britain enjoyed its astir successful time of kayak transverse racing astatine a World Cup, pinch 4 medals successful Ivrea, including golds for Mallory Franklin and Jonny Dickson.

Dickson won nan men's arena pursuing a precocious complaint astatine nan Italian venue, while chap GB canoeist Sam Leaver vanished 3rd and Britain's Olympic metallic medallist Joe Clarke was fourth.

Franklin edged retired team-mate Kimberley Woods, who claimed metallic successful nan women's final, pushing Australia's Olympic champion Noemie Fox into third.

"It was a existent conflict pinch Kim [Woods] - I had to fight," said Franklin, 30, who was wide World Cup kayak transverse champion successful 2022.

"It is beautiful reliable [racing Woods] because I want her to do good arsenic well, but to get up was really bully and to travel distant winning it is evidently amazing."

Woods, who besides claimed canoe slalom (C1) metallic connected Saturday, moved apical of nan women's wide standings successful kayak transverse pinch 1 information of nan World Cup bid remaining.

Dickson looked to beryllium retired of contention successful nan men's last but capitalised aft a coming together betwixt GB team-mate Leaver and France's Gael Adisson, who ended up pinch silver.

"I deliberation successful that last I knew I had a beautiful bully chance because thing tin hap - I went from 3rd to first successful nan past gate," he said.